Tuesday, February 18, 2014

We have insurrections in Ukraine and Venezuela which are on our side. We ought to be supporting them. We can furnish money, intelligence, internet access, paperwork (passports and such), favorable publicity, and drone strikes. And other things.
Trouble is, support like this has to be kept secret. Otherwise our supporters get called American stooges and worse. The insurrections have to be seen as legitimate native uprisings by the opponents, the natives, the EU, and just about everyone in the world, otherwise they loose legitimacy. Can the US keep support a secret? Can the US keep anything a secret? We had US assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland, blow her cover over the phone just a couple of weeks ago. For that matter will Obama see these insurrections as something he should support? He was stupid enough to cold shoulder an Iranian insurgency a couple of years ago.
For that matter would insurgents dare talk to US agents? After CIA has leaked all sorts of stuff to the NY Times? Some years ago we were intercepting Bin Ladin's satellite phone conversations. CIA leaked that, and Bin Laden scrapped the sat phone and went back to couriers. Every one remembers that one.